Uncle Glenn

My dad had three brothers.  Two of them lived near us in Maryland and the other, Uncle Glenn, live in Richmond.  Uncle Glen, his wife, and his three children would come up and visit Granny Whitely a couple times a year (Donna, Cheryl, and Aunt Bernice always read my posts.  Thank you).  Since we lived next door to Granny, we would get to see our cousins a couple of times a year too.  Uncle Glenn worked at Reynolds Aluminum company and would bring my mother a big rolls of aluminum foil.  They were much larger rolls than the ones that were sold in the grocery store, so my mother liked them.  They were the leftovers from the end of the manufacturing rolls and were discarded scrap.  But Uncle Glenn had one stipulation with his gift: we had to call the rolls of aluminum foil “Reynold’s Wrap” (because that’s what they really were).  So my mother was careful to do that.  As a matter of fact, I still call aluminum foil, Reynold’s Wrap!  Hey, for free stuff, that wasn’t too much to ask.  And that’s the way it is with God.  Salvation is free to us sinners.  The only stipulation is that we must ask Jesus for the free gift of salvation.  And that’s not too much to ask.  God could have asked us to do any number of things, but He didn’t.  He just wants us to ask Him for our free salvation.  Jesus said in Matthew 7:7&8, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”  If you want salvation and eternal life, just ask God in simple faith.  If you wanted free aluminum foil, you just had to call it Reynolds Wrap … to Uncle Glenn.